Relevant decision was adopted by the High Council of Justice on January 23, 2023 by 15 votes.
Usyk Hryhorii Ivanovych – judge of the Civil Cassation Court within the Supreme Court, was elected a member of the HCJ by the 19th Extraordinary Congress of Judges of Ukraine on January 11, 2023.
In 1984-1995 he worked in the bodies of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the city of Kyiv.
In 1994 he graduated from the Kharkov Law Institute (now – Yaroslav Mudryi National Law University).
From December 1995 to August 2002 he worked as a judge of Darnytskyi district court of the city of Kyiv.
In 2002-2017, he worked as a judge of the Kyiv Court of Appeal, from May 2014 until his appointment to the office of a judge of the Supreme Court; he held the position of secretary of the Court Chamber for Civil Cases of the Kyiv Court of Appeal.
Since November 2017, he has been working as a judge of the Supreme Court.
According to Article 22 of the Law of Ukraine “On the High Council of Justice”, the Chairman of the High Council of Justice shall be elected from among the members of the High Council of Justice for a two-year term. The Chairman of the High Council of Justice shall be elected at a session of the High Council of Justice by a secret ballot with the ballot bulletins containing the corresponding number of candidates, as proposed by the members of the High Council of Justice.
The decision of the High Council of Justice on the election of the Chairman of the High Council of Justice shall be considered as adopted if it received more than half of the votes of the constitutional number of the members of the High Council of Justice.
Congratulations on the election to the position of Chairman of the HCJ and wishes for success.
“Thank you for the confidence. I hope that with our joint actions, transparent, reasonable, motivated decisions, we will justify the trust placed on us and obligation to ensure the independence of the judiciary. I hope for our joint productive collegial work,” Hryhorii Usyk said.